Narrative Causality Event Pairs

If you use this data in your research, please refer to and cite: Zhichao Hu and Marilyn A. Walker. "Inferring Narrative Causality between Event Pairs in Films," In SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2017), Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2017.

Overview: Telling and understanding stories is a central part of human experience, and many types of human communication involve narrative structures. Theories of narrative posit that narrative causality underlies human understanding of a narrative. Our focus here is the four different relations posited by narrative theories to underly narrative coherence:

• PHYSICAL: Event A physically causes event B to happen

• MOTIVATIONAL: Event A happens with B as a motivation

• PSYCHOLOGICAL: Event A brings about emotions (expressed in event B)

• ENABLING: Event A creates a state or condition for B to happen. A enables B.

Data: This dataset contains evaluation data used in all experiments for the aforementioned paper: